Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
...union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone of the old unions is uncertain. "If they can't crack the service industries--banking, computing, health, finance, insurance--they're dead," says George Washington University labor-law professor Charles Craver...
...when, as a result of widespread and bitter criticism in the King case, the L.A.P.D. retreated from such aggressive policing, crime did dip. Crime also dropped in cities practicing community policing, which I define as a partnership effort with neighborhood groups in solving such problems as noisy bars, crack houses and prostitution. As police chief for 15 years in San Jose, Calif., I saw this approach succeed many times where indiscriminate crackdowns had failed. San Jose became the safest large city in America, while maintaining excellent police relations with its citizens, most of whom were members of minority groups...
...Earning a reputation for incorruptibility at the Kansas City police department, Kelley was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1973 to head the bureau, which had been compromised by Watergate and J. Edgar Hoover's autocratic legacy. Kelley brought the FBI into the computer age, using advanced technologies to crack down on white-collar crime...
...Money earmarked for services and repairs often found its way to payroll, to put yet more unskilled workers on the clock. Also deterring change is the racial politics of the highly segregated city. For the mostly black District residents, Barry--re-elected in 1993 despite serving jail time for crack use--promised a toehold into the middle class. "It's the ultimate patronage," says a D.C. Council senior aide. "If you have a government check, a refrigerator full of food, who cares about the pothole outside...